Re: [g-a-devel]Proposed implementation agnostic GNOME Speech API.

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Scott,

Scott Berry wrote:
> I also have a question here.  Why is it that Gnopernicus uses such a
> complicated layer of keys.  Being new to the program it makes it quite
> difficult to use.  I wonder if this could be changed?

Gnopernicus is in many ways three different apps; or rather, it supports 
three different output modalities of which any two (or perhaps just a single 
one) might be of use to any given individual: e.g. speech + Braille, or 
magnification + speech.

As there are so many commands that a user might want to issue immediately to 
change things (e.g. speech rate, magnification size), Gnopernicus would 
group related commands together on the keypad.  In this way a speech user 
might live on keypad layer 8 for much of the time, a magnification user on 
layer #1 or #2.

The alternatives are:

 1. have far fewer commands available by default
 2. use Ctrl/Shift/Alt-keypad combinations instead of layers
 3. use Function keys or them main keyboard with Ctrl/Shift/Alt combinations

Of these, I think really only option #2 is worth considering.


I do think it would be very helpful to have better documentation of the 
keypad keys.  I've cribbed up a cheat sheet for myself (a horribly 
inaccessable PDF document), that also is also out of date.  I'd be happy to 
share it, though being in graphical and basically inaccesible document, it 
wouldn't be of particular use to the core audience of this software.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team

> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003,
> Rich Burridge wrote:
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Marc Mulcahy asked my to announce something I've been working on
> > over the last few weeks, and get feedback from the community on.
> >
> > I've filed bug #129205
> >
> >  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129205
> >
> > to capture this work.
> >
> > In short, I've created an implementation agnostic set of wrappers for
> > the existing GNOME Speech v0.2.X API that used GObject. It hides the
> > existing Bonobo/ORBit2 implementation under the covers.
> >
> > There is a test application included in one of the two attachments
> > to the bug.
> >
> > If accepted, it's planned that the Bonobo/ORBit2 API would continue
> > to be provided (but deprecated).
> >
> > I've also rewritten the speech related code in gnopernicus to use
> > this new API, but I haven't attached that work yet, until the
> > community feel that this is a good thing to do.
> >
> > I know the API/ABI freeze for GNOME 2.5/6 has already happened, so
> > this is something we'd like to consider for GNOME 2.7/8.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
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